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Charles Inglis was the Curator at the Darjeeling Museum and the volumes are annotated and illustrated by hand by him.
BLANFORD, William Thomas, and Eugene W. OATES. Fauna of British India including Burma and Ceylon: Birds. London, Calcutta, Bombay ;and Berlin: 1889-98. 4 volumes, 8° (213 x 145mm). Interleaved with over 400 drawings of birds in watercolour and pencil by C.M. Inglis, each initialled and with identification in Latin and English. (Lacks vol.I title, a few repairs, some quires or leaves loose.) Later half polished calf (hinges repaired, spines faded).Provenance: Charles M. Inglis (inscriptions in two volumes dated 1897, 1898). ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN WATERCOLOUR BY C.M. INGLIS, curator at the Darjeeling Museum, and annotated by him in pencil throughout. In addition to the identifications of each bird, Inglis has also added musical staves and attempted to record the bird call musically. BM (Nat.Hist.) I, p.173. (4)
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BLANFORD, William Thomas, and Eugene W. OATES. Fauna of British India including Burma and Ceylon: Birds. London, Calcutta, Bombay ;and Berlin: 1889-98.
4 volumes, 8° (213 x 145mm). Interleaved with over 400 drawings of birds in watercolour and pencil by C.M. Inglis, each initialled and with identification in Latin and English. (Lacks vol.I title, a few repairs, some quires or leaves loose.) Later half polished calf (hinges repaired, spines faded).Provenance: Charles M. Inglis (inscriptions in two volumes dated 1897, 1898).
ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN WATERCOLOUR BY C.M. INGLIS, curator at the Darjeeling Museum, and annotated by him in pencil throughout. In addition to the identifications of each bird, Inglis has also added musical staves and attempted to record the bird call musically. BM (Nat.Hist.) I, p.173. (4)
4 volumes, 8° (213 x 145mm). Interleaved with over 400 drawings of birds in watercolour and pencil by C.M. Inglis, each initialled and with identification in Latin and English. (Lacks vol.I title, a few repairs, some quires or leaves loose.) Later half polished calf (hinges repaired, spines faded).Provenance: Charles M. Inglis (inscriptions in two volumes dated 1897, 1898).
ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN WATERCOLOUR BY C.M. INGLIS, curator at the Darjeeling Museum, and annotated by him in pencil throughout. In addition to the identifications of each bird, Inglis has also added musical staves and attempted to record the bird call musically. BM (Nat.Hist.) I, p.173. (4)